Crafting Film,
Visual Storytelling for
Real, Measurable Change.
Kindling Group inspires, entertains, and ignites change by crafting outstanding documentaries on compelling social issues and innovative impact campaigns on these film’s issues. Kindling’s films have been critically acclaimed around the world and have sparked dialogue and measurable change on issues from early childhood education, to faith, homelessness, veterans reintegration, teen pregnancy and public education.
Redefining early childhood education in America.
Our future depends on our youngest citizens. On how many words they hear in their first months of life. On how often they are held. On the kinds of experiences they have.
Seven lives. Four faiths. One call.
The Calling is a landmark four-hour PBS documentary series and community engagement campaign that follows Muslim, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, and Jewish seminarians.
Love is blind. Obedience shouldn’t be.
In 2009 The Vatican launched two investigations of American nuns, aiming to stamp out “radical feminism” and ensure sisters follow a conservative interpretation of doctrine.
On the front lines of teen pregnancy.
A Doula Story documents one woman’s fierce commitment to empower pregnant teenagers with the skills and knowledge they need to become confident, nurturing mothers.
More Projects From Kindling Group:
No Small Matter shares stunning truths about the human capacity for early learning and the potential for quality early care and education to shape America’s social and economic future.
Veterans Coming Home bridges America’s military-civilian divide by telling stories, challenging stereotypes and exploring what Veteran’s need to truly come home.
When the Vatican reprimands U.S. nuns, citing their “radical feminism,” three fearless nuns risk their place in the Church to follow another higher calling: social justice.
Pulling the Thread unravels America’s most popular conspiracy theories and reveals the emotional, cognitive and social forces that lead rational people to believe irrational things.
Illinois consumers getting smart about energy usage & the green economy.
Produced in a unique collaboration between Harvard Law students and filmmakers, Legal Lens explores how the law shapes — and is shaped by — the lives of everyday Americans.
Using Chicago as a microcosm, The School Project explores the interrelated issues of inequity of resources, school privatization, and race in public education in America.
The Last Strike takes viewers inside the infamous PATCO strike of 1981, to discover how these events paved the way for modern Americas’ unprecedented inequality and insecurity.
The Calling is a four-hour documentary series that follows seven young Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim Americans as they prepare for religious leadership.
@home follows formerly-homeless activist Mark Horvath on a road trip across the country, as he makes homelessness in America visible.
The Future of Normal combines observational storytelling, insights of leading experts, compelling motion graphics and animation to explore the complex and nuanced terrain around neurodiversity.
The 39TH follows Guzzardi as he fights to win over a changing neighborhood, block by block – and comes to terms with how far Chicago’s political machine will go to hang on to power.
Do No Harm tells the story of two reluctant whistleblowers in a small Georgia town, who endure relentless attacks as they draw attention to hospital corruption and the plight of the uninsured.
A Doula Story documents one woman’s fierce commitment to empower pregnant teenagers with the skills and knowledge they need to become confident nurturing mothers.
Daniel Alpert
Laura Fallsgraff
Mara Sheban
Ingrid Roettgen
Adam Joel
Adam Wisneski
Ines Sommer
